Information Exposure The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-docs-html  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES150-KERNELDOCSHTML-2756934
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed1 Feb 2019

Introduced: 1 Feb 2019

CVE-2018-16862  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The SLES security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for SLES:15.0.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-docs-html package and not the kernel-docs-html package as distributed by SLES.

A security flaw was found in the Linux kernel in a way that the cleancache subsystem clears an inode after the final file truncation (removal). The new file created with the same inode may contain leftover pages from cleancache and the old file data instead of the new one.